Vicious Horse

Favourites win around 30 per cent of races and lose the other 70 — which is why betting every favourite in Australian horse racing grinds you down. A writer going by Mr Money took that apart for Pr...

You can back winners all year in Australian horse racing and still finish the year behind — that is a staking problem, not a selection problem. Philip Roy wrote about it for Practical Punting in Ma...

Framing your own betting market in Australian horse racing means putting a price on a horse yourself — estimating its percentage chance, just as a bookmaker does. Denton Jardine wrote this one for ...

A bookmaker's price is only an opinion — which is where framing your own betting market in Australian horse racing starts. Denton Jardine wrote this one for Practical Punting in August 1995, and he...

Ten per cent profit on turnover would make most professional punters in Australian horse racing ecstatic — and most, in fact, profit closer to five. Rick, who fits out hotels and offices for a livi...

Picking winners is one thing; backing them correctly is another — and in Australian horse racing, staking is where a good selector hands the year back. In April 1987, writing as Statsman, one Pract...

I've had enough of the vicious, spiteful nonsense oozing from the oily lips of the UK's racing handbag John McCririck, the bloke who dresses up like a clown and spits out venom and hatred against A...

RACING Queensland officials have taken aim at a vicious rumour campaign levelled at leading trainer Tony Gollan after it was found yesterday he had not infringed any rules of racing, reports the Co...

Though last week I trumpeted the virtues of knowing when to draw the line on a day's punting, that notion is a far more difficult beast when applied to a horse's overall campaign. How often do you ...

The owners of talented colt State Of Wealth are daring to dream of the Group One Caulfield Guineas in October following the three-year-old's impressive victory at Eagle Farm.State Of Wealth made up...

Surprise, surprise...A State Govt commissione report says there should be a merger of the AJC and STC. The outcome hardly comes as a shock to anyone. As soon as the Minister called for the report, ...

In this third article, I want to address the issue of what punters expect from their betting. Do we want too much, not enough? Are we reasonable or unreasonable in our expectations? Now some of y...